Womens football
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2024 6:36 pm
For Tango and I to chat on at least!
Just tried to get tickets for Arsenal women vs Man Utd at The Emirates in a couple of weeks time in the WSL (tickets £16.50 adults, £9.15 juniors to answer the inevitable question - I pay from £28 upwards for adult and £10 kids for the men’s PL games, cheaper often for cups in comparison) and I can’t even get 2 together, never mind 5, the only tickets left are a few odd singles dotted around the stadium. Now I know that I left it quite late (and the tickets may have been slightly cheaper on an early bird offer) but as far as I know, no, there aren’t tons given away. Arsenal women have played at The Emirates several times already this season, all to crowds of 45k and up including at least one sell out against Chelsea and they have added an extra fixture (Leicester city) to the others to come too due to popular demand. Borehamwood where they are supposed to play most of their home games is pretty much sold out just to ST holders every match as it’s tiny so I’m intrigued as to how the club are going to manage the rapid growth of the women’s team support going forwards. I know Arsenal lead the way in terms of support in the women’s game compared to other clubs and that they may not have this issue yet but clearly Arsenal have outgrown Borehamwood, yet the club have said there is no space available in London to build a football ground for say 25-30k which is not unreasonable they would fill given the popularity of the emirates matches which are now not a once a season one off but regularly drawing big crowds. Looks like long term the plan is to play all the women’s games at The Emirates which I think is a really exciting development.
Further reading https://arseblog.news/2023/12/arsenal-w ... explainer/
Just tried to get tickets for Arsenal women vs Man Utd at The Emirates in a couple of weeks time in the WSL (tickets £16.50 adults, £9.15 juniors to answer the inevitable question - I pay from £28 upwards for adult and £10 kids for the men’s PL games, cheaper often for cups in comparison) and I can’t even get 2 together, never mind 5, the only tickets left are a few odd singles dotted around the stadium. Now I know that I left it quite late (and the tickets may have been slightly cheaper on an early bird offer) but as far as I know, no, there aren’t tons given away. Arsenal women have played at The Emirates several times already this season, all to crowds of 45k and up including at least one sell out against Chelsea and they have added an extra fixture (Leicester city) to the others to come too due to popular demand. Borehamwood where they are supposed to play most of their home games is pretty much sold out just to ST holders every match as it’s tiny so I’m intrigued as to how the club are going to manage the rapid growth of the women’s team support going forwards. I know Arsenal lead the way in terms of support in the women’s game compared to other clubs and that they may not have this issue yet but clearly Arsenal have outgrown Borehamwood, yet the club have said there is no space available in London to build a football ground for say 25-30k which is not unreasonable they would fill given the popularity of the emirates matches which are now not a once a season one off but regularly drawing big crowds. Looks like long term the plan is to play all the women’s games at The Emirates which I think is a really exciting development.
Further reading https://arseblog.news/2023/12/arsenal-w ... explainer/
